Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:57:40 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 22:47:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 18, 2000 at 21:01:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 18, 2000 at 17:30:37, Garry Evans wrote: >> >>>On November 18, 2000 at 16:54:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On November 18, 2000 at 15:45:32, walter irvin wrote: >>>> >>>>>if you had a cray super computer in your house , so your time would not be >>>>>limited .what kind of chess program would you create?? another Cray Blitz or >>>>>would it be more like crafty .Also if you played it on ICC what blitz rating >>>>>would you expect that you would get ? how many nps do you imagine you would get >>>>>if it were the 32 processor Cray ??? I think it would be about as interesting as >>>>>the second comming of deep blue .Also what do you think your chances to be world >>>>>champion with that beast be?? >>>> >>>> >>>>The program would be a hybrid approach. To run fast on the Cray requires >>>>a lot of vectorization throughout the program. Bitmaps are cute, but they >>>>don't run fast on a Cray without some vector stuff as well. >>>> >>>>NPS? CB could do 7M. Crafty should be able to do the same. It would >>>>be tough... but it wouldn't be Deep Blue by any stretch. >>> >>> I think Deep Jr. and Deep Fritz are performing nearly as well as Deep blue >>>has. NPS is not everything, I think the Software is just as important? Am I >>>wrong? >> >>Short answer: yes. :) >> >>DB had both good software _and_ good hardware, contrary to what some would >>have you believe. > >Whether or not the software was good is a point of religion, and regarding this >issue, I am agnostic in the strictest sense. What you say may be true. It may >be false. I don't think it's possible to know. > >bruce > If you know the guys responsible, then you _know_ they didn't do anything "half-way"... >>> Winning the >>>>WC? Difficult question. Such a machine won it twice, of course. A third >>>>time? who knows?
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